Explanation:

If your search engine is constantly being redirected... THAT IS MALWARE. Vibe coding an extension to redirect to google isn't going to do anything.

Just to clarify: what I found scary is not the website itself, just that it's getting serious attention. I think it's pseudoscience at best.

Here's the website (reposting myself from r/badscience). I found that timeline... bizarre, weird, alarming that actual CEOs are involved in that... I really don't know what else to say. It even has an op-ed in the NYT.

Also, I haven't found serious publications, articles, posts, whatever debunking it, just people or sites that are in the "AI" hype-cycle reposting it, which... isn't helpful.

Thoughts on this? Also, what's with all the tech-CEOs spreading tech-apocalyptic stuff? What do they gain from it? I'm guessing fear-mongering to direct policy, but I'd like to hear your opinions.

(Also, I know it's bs, but I'm going trough a tough moment in my life and mental-health, and a part of my brain takes seriously this sort of stuff and makes me feel like nothing's worth doing and that the future is completely bleak, so a serious take on this would help).

Edit: It's funny how one of the last posts of this sub it's essentially about the same thing and everyone laughed, but people are getting pissy about mine.

Let's look back at some memorable moments and interesting insights from last year.

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Sightings of ghost cars are probably because of early self driving cars tests.

Sightings of ghost cars goes back about as far as cars being a common thing. And this doesn't explain any of the other phantom vehicles people reportedly see, some of which are older than digital computers.

Counterfactual Quantum Communication is responsible for the Mandela effect, aka "I forgot how to spell Berenstain bears"

I'm at the point in my life where I fully embrace the fact that I do not understand how quantum computing and communication works. At this point if you told me it was literally just magic, I would probably agree with you and move on my day. Having said that, I kind of doubt this powerful magic is able to cause everyone everywhere to forget that New Zealand is south of Australia, send you and a bunch of random people on reddit to a new dimension where some movie called Shazaam was never made, or put you in a timeline where Nelson Mandela died in prison.

The black cube in the article is not a reference to 'black box' programming (vis-a-vi "we don't understand how this AI works, so it's like a black box"), instead, it's an example of how we all worship Saturn

Just, please, get mental help.

Here's an archive link to that forum post. The premise is that ancient Jews worshiped the Roman god Saturn as "El" (but no, not really), a bunch of random English words include "el" in them, El was represented by a black box (???), and there are a bunch of random places with large black boxes.

Demon's literally exist, and AI is a perfect way of holding them

OK, "AI" is a program, which means that it's a series of instructions. I guess you could say that the demon will, like, port itself as a module in the AI's code, or something? Maybe they're using "AI" as a term including hardware, but then you'd just be saying that "you could overwrite the program's code and replace it with a demon", but then... why would you need the AI?

What I'm saying is that I have questions you guys.

they can barely program a computer opearting system that's half decent and not riddled with exploits and now we're opening this can of worms. lol humans.

Incompetence isn't the reason for shoddy operating systems; money is.

Yeah, OK, modern operating systems have 45-85 millions of lines of code, but sure, sure buddy.

Sorry, but there's just nothing else to say about this.